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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admit that I was skeptical about the wisdom of making a movie version of a play which John Guare's writing and Jerry Zaks' direction had already rendered perfect. Yet Six Degrees of Separation is a highly successfully and engrossing film which cleverly capitalizes on the show's cinematic possibilities while remaining incredibly faithful to its witty and insightful text...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Cons, Cocktails and Kandinsky | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

With fellow conservative and Kenan Professor ofGovernment Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 at hisside, Will said he breaks the conservativeconventional wisdom against term limits...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Will Supports Term Limits | 1/14/1994 | See Source »

Limbaugh's listeners do not always agree with his often offensive rhetoric, but the radio pundit remains popular because he has tapped the growing public sense that something is seriously wrong with our political culture. It has become conventional wisdom that our special-interests-beholden political parties are barely distinguishable from each other...

Author: By Beong-soo Kim, | Title: The Politics of Our Values | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Conventional wisdom says New Yorkers are afflicted by compassion fatigue, the dispiriting belief that since nothing will solve the problems of the poor and homeless, nothing should even be attempted. But the disease, if it exists at all, does not extend to owners of winter coats during the Christmas season. Far better, these five and tens of thousands of others have concluded, for their unused garment to be on the back of some shivering soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene a Tale of Five Warm Coats | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Hail the Demagogue: The wisdom of Vladimir Zhirinovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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